An edition of Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness (1895)

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An edition of Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness (1895)

Little rivers

a book of essays in profitable idleness

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Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau binding in gold, green and white on smooth dark blue cloth. A series of lyrical essays about rivers the author has visited and fished in the United States, Canada and overseas. A beautiful copy of one of Armstrong's stained glass style bindings. -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.

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Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Pages
348

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Subjects

Fishing, Outdoor life, Rivers, Plein air, Cours d'eau, Pêche sportive, American literature, Essays (single author), Bookbinding, Specimens, American Authors

Places

Canada

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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1995, Musson
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1920, C. Scribner's Sons
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1911, C. Scribner's sons
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Little rivers.: A book of essays in profitable idleness
1906, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness.
1904, Copp, Clark
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1903, Charles Scribner's Sons
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1895, C. Scribner's Sons
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Little Rivers
1895
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Little rivers: a book of essays in profitable idleness
1895, Charels Scribner's sons
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Little rivers.
1895, C. Scribner's sons
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Table of Contents

Prelude
Little rivers
A leaf of spearmint
Ampersand
A handful of heather
The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht
Alpenrosen and goat's milk
Au large
Trout-fishing in the Traun
At the sign of the balsam bough
A song after sundown.

Edition Notes

"Illustrations from drawings by F.V. DuMond"--Prelim. p. [9].

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
814/.52
Library of Congress
PS3117 .L5 1903

The Physical Object

Pagination
[10], 348 p., [8] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
348

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6932361M
Internet Archive
littleriversabo02dykegoog
LCCN
03024831
LibraryThing
399247

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Work ID
OL2254119W

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